Search results for "Opioids"
Care models reduce opioid dosage in patients with chronic pain
Care from an integrated pain team and pharmacist collaborative management each yielded similar small improvements in pain and substantial reductions in opioid dosage among U.S. veterans taking long-term opioids for chronic pain, a study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2024/12/17/1.htm
17 Dec 2024
One pill can kill: Tackling substance use disorders
ACP believes that substance use disorders are a chronic medical condition and should be managed as such.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2024/10/one-pill-can-kill-tackling-substance-use-disorders.htm
1 Oct 2024
Low back pain patients with opioid use disorder more likely to get more opioids
One-quarter of Medicare beneficiaries seeking care for acute low back pain received opioid prescriptions, according to 2016 to 2019 data. Patients with opioid use disorder received higher opioid doses and were more likely to be coprescribed gabapentin.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2024/06/11/4.htm
11 Jun 2024
Stamping out STIs
Combating sexually transmitted infections (STIs) involves recognizing disparities, addressing the stigma that surrounds sexual health care, and viewing testing and treatment as a comprehensive care package rather than individual concerns, experts said.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2024/10/stamping-out-stis.htm
1 Oct 2024
Coadministration of antidepressants, certain opioids linked to adverse events in nursing home patients
Older nursing home patients who received both CYP2D6-metabolized opioids and CYP2D6-inhibiting antidepressants were at higher risk for worsening pain, pain-related hospitalization, pain-related ED visits, and opioid use disorder in a recent study.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2024/07/23/1.htm
23 Jul 2024
Seeking clarity for opioid prescribing
Doctors continue to be frustrated by their patients' chronic pain problems, due to a lack of evidence on opioids' long-term effectiveness and strong evidence of potential harms.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/04/opioids.htm
1 Apr 2015
Drug screens early during treatment for OUD predict risk of return to opioid use
Patients whose urine drug screens in the three weeks after beginning treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) were negative for opioids had a 13% risk of returning to opioid use compared with 85% for those with three weeks of opioid-positive or missing results.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2023/10/10/2.htm
10 Oct 2023
Latest updates on ACP's priorities, initiatives
ACP Spotlight offers readers a look at ACP's current top priorities and initiatives, as well as highlights from our e-newsletter, I.M. Matters Weekly from ACP.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2024/11/latest-updates-on-acps-priorities-initiatives.htm
1 Nov 2024
Patients with OUD less likely to stop methadone than buprenorphine/naloxone
Results were consistent after fentanyl became present in the population and across a range of subgroup and sensitivity analyses.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2024/10/22/4.htm
22 Oct 2024
Routine opioid use disorder screening fails to significantly increase new diagnosis rates
This may be due to the sensitivity of the screening instrument, compounded by the stigma of opioid use disorder; addressing the latter may increase the instrument's sensitivity, the authors suggest.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2023/10/17/2.htm
17 Oct 2023